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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
The difference is A WARRANT. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, suppo
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
The definition of "the state" used to be "the entity with a monopoly on violence". I think it has changed to "the entity with a monopoly on surveillance".
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
Source? "Exempt employee" has to do with overtime, not moonlighting. It's not relevant to this discussion.
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
There's nothing illegal about this, although Hacker News for some reason has the peculiar belief that there is. Any contract purporting to prevent an employee from earning money elsewhere is an illegal restraint of trade. Indeed the
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
Money taken like that should not be spent on necessities of life but on luxuries of life. Sylvia Bloom, master of insider trading, disagrees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Bloom Sylvia Bloom (c. 1919 – 2016)
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
It also means the determination to stick by that self valuation. Current laws impose an unpayable tax on micropayments with money-settled valuations but no tax whatsoever on micropayments with attention-settled or personal-data-settled va
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
although the definition of ‘free’ has been adjusted over time, mostly to mean no money changes hands. Just watch a few ads, allow the content providers to share your data with the world, and enjoy a lifetime of ‘free’ content. And it stay
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
please explain? OP recommended McElice, not DUAL_EC_DRDBG. Is there something I should know about the former?
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
In the event of an attack would any of this actually pan out and function as it should? Convincing congress that they can survive a nuclear exchange was part of -- perhaps most of -- its function.
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
Yes. Here is the roll call on the 212-212 tie vote on the Biggs Amendment which would require a warrant: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024114 Thirteen members did not vote on that roll call. There is a Motion to Recon
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
The purpose of a Motion to Reconsider is to delay an approved motion from taking effect until the end of the following business day if an absentee can be convinced to join the quorum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
Exactly. Dark fiber in the Right-of-Way should be a regulated monopoly prohibited from vertically integrating with the rest of the value chain. Just like water pipes, sewer pipes, and power lines. Electrical utilities aren't allowed t
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
Normal person: what time is it? Physicist: ten electron-volts. Wat.
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
This makes me want to buy some Hytera two-way radios!
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
Genuinely curious, why the downvotes?
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
unless you’re stating crypto primitives should only be written in assembly Yes, that's exactly what I'm stating. Have a look at openssl, boringssl, nspr, etc. They all implement the core modular arithmetic for RSA and the s-box
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
Another casualty of AI KYC.
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
The masks are the expensive part, not the wafers.
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
This uses a flawed RSA implementation which is vulnerable to timing attacks: https://deps.rs/repo/github/rpgp/rpgp#vulnerabilities There is a reason why crypto primitives handling key material -- especially R
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
The hacker subculture there is incredible; closest thing to late-1990s bay area (before the flood of money killed everything) that's still alive today. But yeah, there are a lot of negatives counterbalancing that.
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
Your water company's main pipes aren't made of copper. They're probably shedding something worse than microplastics into your water, long before it crosses your property line.
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
Perhaps more interesting is the list of crawlers that this API generates the robots.txt from: https://darkvisitors.com/
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
This sounds like you abandoning any hope of ever producing the level of journalism you did in 2013. That is disappointing.
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
Recommendation: use QR codes (output, displayed on-screen) and webcams (input). Safer than swapping around thumbdrives, harder to screw up.
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
In Qubes, the networking can be disabled in the hypervisor. This will turn the VM into an air gapped machine. That is not an air gap.
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/10/08/176195/nsas-own-... MIT Technology Review -- NSA’s Own Hardware Backdoors May Still Be a “Problem from Hell” "This month, news reports based on leaked d
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
SecureDrop Workstation is based on Qubes OS. It removes the need for a separate ‘air gapped’ machine Qubes is awesome, but it's no substitute for an air gap. This is the same publication that broke the Snowden story. Their adversary
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
> why, in a world of Google docs The answer is in the first sentence of the article: data sovereignty. Most governments don't want to store their data with a foreign corporation.
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by karma_pharmer 3y ago
MIPS has been bankrupt multiple times and is now defunct but I still buy routers with their chips in them. The problem with current EVs is that they're smartphones with wheels. Only the manufacturer can service them. So you can'